TY - JOUR
AU - Duşa, Adrian
AB - CONTRIBUTED RES EARC H ARTICLES 87 QCA: A Package for Qualitative Comparative Analysis by Alrik Thiem and Adrian Dusa ¸ Abstract We present QCA, a package for performing Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). QCA is becoming increasingly popular with social scientists, but none of the existing software alternatives covers the full range of core procedures. This gap is now filled by QCA. After a mapping of the method’s diffusion, we introduce some of the package’s main capabilities, including the calibration of crisp and fuzzy sets, the analysis of necessity relations, the construction of truth tables and the derivation of complex, parsimonious and intermediate solutions. Introduction Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) - a research method popularized largely through the work of Charles Ragin (Ragin, 1987, 2000, 2008) - counts among the most influential recent innovations in social science methodology. In line with Ragin’s own background, QCA has been initially employed only by a small number of (political) sociologists (e.g., Amenta et al., 1992; Griffin et al., 1991; Wickham-Crowley, 1991). Since then, however, the method has made inroads into political science and international relations (e.g., Thiem, 2011; Vis, 2009), business and economics (e.g., Evans and Aligica, 2008; Valliere et al., 2008), management and 
TI - QCA: A Package for Qualitative Comparative Analysis
JF - The R Journal
DO - 10.32614/rj-2013-009
DA - 2013-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/qca-a-package-for-qualitative-comparative-analysis-nXnAfw3Qxz
DP - DeepDyve
ER -